Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • The best WP plugin yet

    One of the reasons I decided to get a godaddy hosted account for my blog rather than just using the wordpress.com free accounts is plugins (the other is I can get my data out of the godaddy blog a little easier that wp.com makes it). I have about 10 active plugins that I use on…

  • Pat Erickson from Thomas Built Bus on Innovation

    Another presentation from one of our users on how their innovation process has been helped by Teamcenter.

  • CATIA costs Airbus $6.1B in delays

    Wonder if they will ask for a refund?  This story keeps getting worse for Airbus and Dassault.  I wonder if there is an emerging conspiracy theory opportunity here: is Dassault screwing up Airbus on purpose to help their aviation focused sister company? EADS: Further delays for Airbus A380 jet – Yahoo! News

  • The most frustraing game

    Played a round of golf yesterday with two customers and another UGSer as part of a scramble at the Innovation Leadership summit.  It was the first game I have been able to play this year, so I didn’t play that well.  In the end I think we used 5 or 6 of my shots and…

  • The process requirements for Innovation

    Karl Ulrich from the Wharton School of Business addressed the UGS Innovation Leadership forum today in Scottsdale. He had some really interesting things to say about how to go about the process of innovation. Take a listen.

  • Wrap up panel session at Innovation Leadership Summit

    At the conclusion of the main session at this week’s Innovation Leadership summit there was a panel session with most of the speakers at the event. The session was lead by Bill Carrelli and the panelists include John Heller, Chuck Grindstaff, Jim Brown, Bruce Buff, Mike Bellio and John Graham.

  • Don Richardson from Microsoft – Innovation Leadership Summit

    Microsoft is one of our best partners and this talk is focused on how Microsoft itself has become a great innovator in both software and hardware (X-box, Zune).

  • Frank Bellio – Innovation Leadership Summit

    A great view on how to justify an investment in PLM as delivered by Frank Bellio of Mercury Marine.

  • In Scottsdale for Innovation Forum

    Well it took me 2 plane flights an 6.5 hours, but I finally made it to Scottsdale.  I’m here for the next two days for a forum on Innovation  There are some really interesting speakers lined up.  With my EVDO card in hand and my new godaddy.com hosted blog, I am really ready to do…